Working with Graphics in AppleWorks 6 Word Processing

Adding Graphics to your Word Processing files:

From the File menu, you can select “Show clippings” to view clipart, and also be able search for thousands more on the web. Graphics from the clippings are simply “dragged” into the document. The caveat is to learn the difference between and "in-line" graphic (one that behaves as if it were a character in your document and moves along with the other characters) and a "floating" graphic (one that can be dragged to any position on the page).

The flamingo to the right is an example of an in-line graphic. If you add characters to the sentence above, the flamingo will move along the line.

To create a floating graphic, you must first "activate" your graphic arrow pointer in the toolbar. (To show your toolbar, click the red toolbox at the bottom of the document window, or from the "Window -> Show Tools" menu.) Again, you drag the graphic onto the page, but notice that it floats over the text, as the dragonfly is floating above this paragraph. With the graphic selected (handles or nodes are visible around the graphic), you can choose other features, such as the "Options -> Text Wrap" to wrap text away from a floating graphic, as it does with the toolbar graphic to the left.

Images other than those in the Clippings palette can be "inserted" into your documents using the "File -> Insert" menu. Two things to remember here are: 1) be sure you activate your graphic arrow if you want the graphic to float over the text, and 2) on the “Insert” dialog box, choose “All available” from the drop down menu so that jpgs and gifs are recognized by AppleWorks.